Pilot Grove News

A 40-year chapter in the lives of seven Benedictine sisters will end this summer when Our Lady of Peace Monastery closes its doors.

Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Lorenz, of Pilot Grove, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a church Mass and family dinner at their son's home in Pilot Grove.

Michael and Regina Siegel, of Pilot Grove, announce the engagement of their daughter, Alexandria Siegel, of Pilot Grove, to Jimmie Rutledge, of Sedalia.

The City of Pilot Grove offered visitors a little bit of everything Saturday during the 5th annual Pilot Grove Harvest Festival.

Mr. and Mrs. L. J. "Bud" Stone, of Sedalia, will observe their 60th wedding anniversary on Thursday.

Crafts, pumpkins, cars and ugly trucks will fill downtown Pilot Grove on Saturday during the city's annual Harvest Festival.

No state has been hit harder by the economic recession than Michigan, where unemployment stands at 15.2 percent.

Putting together the cookbook, "Steppin' Back in Thyme," a collection of recipes by Ted and Betty Wassman, of Pilot Grove, was a labor of love filled with not only family recipes, but family photos dating from the 1930s to 2005.

Consider Pilot Grove, a tiny town of 723. Its grocery store closed recently to much local moaning that another small business - " one which represented the heart of the community - " was disappearing.

A few items remain on the mostly bare shelves of the Main Street Grocery. The town, with a population of 723, lost its sole grocery when the Main Street store shut down in June.

This month, thousands of college students are starting classes with tuition money from the state they earned through a program unique to Missouri.

Near the Katy Trail head in Clifton City is a yard filled with aluminum cans, metal scraps and old bike parts.

Near the Katy Trail head in Clifton City is a yard filled with aluminum cans, metal scraps and old bike parts.

Near the Katy Trail head in Clifton City is a yard filled with aluminum cans, metal scraps and old bike parts.

The first twelve sellers at the Saline County Fair Junior Livestock Sale Friday, July 17, earned $8,325 for their grand and reserve grand champion animals and hams.

The Pettis County Commission this week opened bids from nine companies across the state for a project that will replace a bridge over Crooked Creek.

Friday, June 26, 2009 at 5:10 p.m. Nearly a dozens contestants competed in a "Missouri Missouri" pageant today at the Capital Mall in Jefferson City.

Duane and Carolyn Miller, of Warsaw, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Warsaw on June 6 with family and friends.